Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-08-21
"A FEARFUL TRAGEDY
Disclosed in New York Through the Me-
dunn Of 4 Bad Smell.
TWO WOMEN FOUND DEAD IN BED.
They Take Lauianum and Then Use a
Razor on Each Other
BLOOD-SOAKED LETTERS FOUND,

NEW YORK, August 2O--A disgusting
stencil has Tiled the tenement, No. II
Charles street, Tor the past few days, and
yesterday il grew 20 bad that Mrs From
keim, the hOusekceper, notified the police.
She believed the smell came from a pail Of
garbage in the room Un the second floor,
occupied by Mrs. Melyinah Payne and her
daughter, Anna On Monday last the
women had been seen closing up the shut
tiers and il was thought they had gone to
the country. The report to the police
brought No response, and this forenoon the
stencil had
GROWN 81 VILE
that Mr.. Harmon, the owner OF the house,
decided To make IN investigation. He got
on the lire escape aud pecred into the wo
mems room. lie SAW both women lying
dead on the bed, which was despatched
with blood. Maggots erawled over the
sheets The man rushed for the police,
and 4 !0cksmith hurst open the door
DisinlrCtantS we've spread about and
an investigation was made. The women
had been lying dead since Monday. \
razor and an empty laudanum bottle were
OH chair beside the bed. Half stupelied
by poison probably, and insensiblc to pain,
the women had cut the arteries at their ell
bows and ankles and
BLED 10 DEATH
locked in each others arms Death had
unlouscnrd their grip and they lay side by
side facing each other Letters found on
a table beside the bed showed they hai
carefully considered the plan of suicide
aud decided to die together. The en-
vrlOpcs containing them were soaked with
blood that the address was almost lll"
glblc The police made it out 10 be
"Nlls- +. A. Weed
40. j., West Twelfth Street. -
Miss Weed ~ daughter of the late
IhuIber Weed and the Plyncs were
known to he old friends Of the Weed
family
THE LETTERS.
One of the letters sarI:
"JIiv H. /. Itod
DEAR FEIENp:-lf anything happens
that We are both found dead Will you syr
that We are buried in Albany Rural Gene
tery, in Oxen caskets. Mr. James \. Burns
at the cemetery knows were our lot is. My
mother has Sl9l in the Herckcr street
street Savings Bank. ! have monryin the
above bank, and also IN thr Rowery Slvin",
Bank, and the dry dock in Third avenue
These amuunts Will pas all funeral "a
pcusoS
.,,s. u..r, is;-.i.. ! ....1 a.,,,l ,,.,,,,,, -,
Il little homestead, but mat j. all hopeless
now. We are both helpless now Is to our
minds. We urr not lat 10 r.uc Tor cur.
selves The Cuatrul- ol our house - Ia
be given to the poor
NAuIHEE LETTER SAID.
we are both Of us, my mother AMI /.
insane aud dread the Mad house. We
want 10 be- with our family. Tell our
relatives where We lie Oar relatives are
Henry Martin, II Seclyr avenue CirNc-
land, o.; s NJ. Talbot, WilIoughby, Lake
county. q Julia \. Mansfield, Chiu'au-
qua, y. \.
The Payne family have lived in tn,
house upwards Of three yeas. They were
quiet, gentle women. Mrs Payne was "a
widow aLoui 90 years old. Her daughter
was about 80 years old, and YEAS teacher
in til" East SIDE pnhlir school. It was
not known 10y the nrIphbors thst there
was anything unusual ahont the women